Psycho-Pass 3

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Japanese: PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス 3

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Type: TV

Episodes: 8

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 25, 2019 to Dec 13, 2019

Premiered: Fall 2019

Broadcast: Fridays at 00:55 (JST)

Producers: Dentsu, Fuji TV, Nitroplus, Sony Music Entertainment, TOHO animation, MAGNET

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Production I.G

Source: Original

Genres: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Suspense

Themes: Adult Cast, Detective, Gore, Psychological

Duration: 45 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 7.44¹ (scored by 87,204 users)

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Ranked: #2117²

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Popularity: #889

Members: 272,156

Favorites: 534

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Synopsis

Thanks to the Sibyl System, the mental states of society can now be measured on a numerical scale. Using these "crime coefficients," a culprit can be apprehended before they ever commit a crime. But is it a perfect system? For Inspectors Kei Mikhail Ignatov and Arata Shindou, that remains to be seen, as their career with the Public Safety Bureau's Crime Investigation Department has only just begun.

Shindou and Ignatov are assigned to investigate the crash of a ship carrying immigrants, but they begin to suspect that it was no mere accident. Meanwhile, a mysterious group called Bifrost is observing them from the shadows, but they are not the only ones who have taken an interest in the two new Inspectors.

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Adaptation:	Psycho-Pass 3
Sequel:	Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Prequel:	Psycho-Pass Movie: Providence

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Characters & Voice Actors

Shindou, Arata

Main

Kaji, Yuuki
Japanese

Ignatov, Kei Mikhail

Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi
Japanese

Kougami, Shinya

Supporting

Seki, Tomokazu
Japanese

Tsunemori, Akane

Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

Ginoza, Nobuchika

Supporting

Nojima, Kenji
Japanese

Karanomori, Shion

Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki
Japanese

Kunizuka, Yayoi

Supporting

Itou, Shizuka
Japanese

Dominator

Supporting

Hidaka, Noriko
Japanese

Hinakawa, Shou

Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

Shimotsuki, Mika

Supporting

Sakura, Ayane
Japanese

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Morihiro, Fumi

Producer

Kuroki, Rui

Producer

Yoshizawa, Takashi

Producer

Sano, Hiroaki

Producer, Executive Producer

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Opening Theme

"Q-vism" by Who-ya Extended

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Ending Theme

"bullet" by Cö shu Nie

Reviews

Jun 26, 2022

E_Kiritsugu

Recommended

To me season 3 feels like a very interesting reboot more than a sequel. It's very similar to how the shift in Tokyo Ghoul RE felt from season 1. The world is quickly and heavily expanded on, things get fleshed out. For example, the beginning they address how politics work together with the Sibyl system. They go into how genetically engineering people is a thing in this world. The technology of he world is a step up here, as even in episode 1 we get to see a passenger drone, then in episode 2 we get to see how dominators can be ...

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Apr 10, 2024

daaphish

Mixed Feelings

*No Spoilers*
This review is for Psycho-Pass 3, the third season of the series. This portion does not include First Inspector, which takes place directly after the end of Season 3.

Summary:
Psycho-Pass is a psychological, detective-style series set in the future. Law enforcement is governed by the Sibyl System, which utilizes a person’s hue and Crime Coefficient to determine their mental state and likelihood of committing a crime. Psycho-Pass 3 sets aside some past characters and motives like a reboot, and it introduces new characters and the is story guided more by human politics than its predecessors. Overall, this season is an improvement from season 2, ... though it does have glaring flaws.

Story: 5/10
Season 3 picks up some time after Season 2, with significant changes to the cast, immediately evident starting in episode 1. The story focuses more on a mystery motivated by a complicated political hierarchy (no spoilers), which is an improvement from the storyline in Season 2. The overall themes in Season 3 are still weak compared to Season 1, but they are more interesting than Season 2, and the plot focuses more on humanity than it does the repetitive AI-style Sibyl System prominent in previous seasons. The story is mysterious, though incomplete at the end of the 8 episodes. To understand the full story, you must also watch the three episodes of Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector, which will be reviewed separately. Generally, the story in Season 3 is an improvement from Season 2, though it does jump around with many unanswered questions, including the jarring removal of a main character and the evident hole in the Sibyl System that had not been explored before. Furthermore, some abilities are introduced with insufficient description and, although the abilities do add to the mystery and uniqueness of the characters, they break the rules of Seasons 1 and 2 in a murky way. Overall, the story is intriguing and more interesting than the previous season, but the pacing may be a little too fast, as it doesn’t provide the viewer with quite enough information to satiate the many questions that are posited along the way. While mysterious, the plot makes it challenging to understand the rules of the story.

Art: 9/10
The art is fitting, and the detail in the cityscapes is pretty. This season has the best animation out of the first three seasons.

Sound: 5/10
The music is average. The voice acting (sub) is sufficient. There is nothing special about this soundtrack, and the opening and ending themes are also average. The soundtrack does seem more fitting than in Season 2.

Characters: 6/10
Season 3’s characters are far more interesting and compelling than in Season 2. One flaw is that the series’ main protagonist is principally absent, and the story does not clearly indicate why. There are a variety of unanswered questions pertaining to the previous cast of characters, including how they ended up in the positions they did. Some roles are also new to the series’ world, with no explanation. Beyond this, the new characters are a significant improvement from the previous season. Instead of one-dimensional plot devices for characters, Unit One has a dynamic cast of people who actually interact and work as a team while also making challenging decisions. Shindo and Ignatov make a convincing duo, and the side characters are all intriguing. Although the antagonists, in the form of a political system, are mystical and intricate, they are a relative weakness.

Enjoyment: 7/10
Although it was confusing and had its flaws in plot and characters, this was an enjoyable watch. It certainly doesn’t have the same impact as Season 1, but it is an improvement from Season 2, especially with more interesting and compelling characters. Season 3 is entertaining, albeit unexceptional in overall quality.

Overall: 6.4

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Sep 28, 2021

Joey_Love

Not Recommended

DISCLAIMER: I'm not a manga reader so I always come absolutely blind to every anime I watch (that applies to any source material not just manga), so take into account that I judge only what's presented in the animation and/or season story-wise.

ABOUT THE STORY:
This one was a hit and miss. It's sad that this series have really interesting and unique world-building elements but has failed to improve the narrative and just gets worse with each new installment, and here's why:

The timeskip is completely unnecessary and confusing. Everything about the ungoing story to this point was rendered meaningless for this story arc. Every mayor reveal and ... plot twist is now belittled in the portrayal of the season, and this was not the first time this happens. Sybil's true identity and Shinya Kōgami's reinstatement and transfer to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs along with Nobuchika Ginoza are neevr explained or even rendered relevant even though it is. With this last one we can assume he was offered the role at the same time as Teppē Sugo but it's never addressed.

This season did and awful job introducing so many new faces that no one really cares for during the season. The only thing keeping this afloat are the brief moments were we get to see Shinya, Nobuchika, Akane and Yayoi, characters that we as viewers grew to love/hate or at least got to really know. Even the analyst (Shion Karanomori) seems so uninterested towards what's happening in the Public Safety Bureau. And nothing gets to be explained at all, if the season were to be going in the direction of uncovering what happened to Akane during the timeskip, it'd be fine but it never gets addressed, on the contrary we're presented with a whole new plot. There's an organization all of the sudden that's comparable to the Iluminati but that definitely need to get their hierarchy order; it mixes up the terms (or ranks) "fox", "inspector", and "congressmen". When talking about "inspectors" might even include a translation error. The idea of the BIFROST organization was ok, but should have been presented, hinted or something in previous installments.

ABOUT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT:
So... Everybody is doing fine I guess with whatever has happened during the last 3 years, I mean no one seems to really care, and that sent the message we shouldn't either.

• ARATA SHINDŌ: I loved the voice acting of Yuki Kaji (our so likeable Meliodas) but that's about it. It's common to develop overpowered characters but you have to do a really good job for the viewer to be ok with the fact they're overpowered. Satoru Gojō from Jujutsu Kaisen and Gilgamesh from the Fate Multiverse are great examples of that. On the other hand it's fine that Arata is a mentalist but him having supernatural powers because he's "overly empathetic" is such a poor excuse and is rather ilogical taking into consideration the laws of the world already presented to us years ago. We are suppose to be interested for his father even, a character that didn't even existed alive on screen. Who is his father and why would I care about that?

• SHIZUKA HOMURA: it's hard to criticize this one, he was presented as the main villain when they decided to focus on his promotion to "congressmen" but he never does that much as a character. Again he is another unsolved mystery that with whom we never get to connect as viewers.

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